Via Fox News
The spokesman for U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State militants in Syria says the fighters are removing land mines and clearing main roads in the city of Raqqa, a day after they announced it was captured.
Mustafa Bali, the Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman, says preparations are also underway on Wednesday for a formal declaration of the liberation.
SDF announced on Tuesday that their troops have taken full control of the city, once the heart of IS’ self-styled caliphate.
Brett McGurk, the top U.S. envoy for the coalition battling the Islamic State group, is in northern Syria. He posted a photograph of surrendering IS militants, saying: “once purported as fierce, now pathetic and a lost cause.”
McGurk says the United States will help in clearing explosives and restoring services in the city.
In 2014, Obama dismissed ISIS a ‘JV Team‘ while they butchered their way through Iraq and Syria. All they needed was jobs, hugs, and Obamacare and everything would be fine.
Well, thanks to Barky, they achieved Varsity status. All of the accomplishments and sacrifices we made to help Iraq transition to a representative democracy, were flushed. But he was never really enthusiastic about the war against terrorism, anyway.
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has implemented new ROE that U.S. forces are no longer bound by requirements to be in contact with enemy forces before opening fire. Hopefully, that will be the case wherever we are deployed.
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